Comments on: Effectiveness and Efficiency http://www.happinessfunction.com/users/dhorlick/blog/?p=185 energy conservation, alternative transportation, & miscellaneous Earth-helping Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:43:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Dave Horlick http://www.happinessfunction.com/users/dhorlick/blog/?p=185#comment-268 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:19:47 +0000 http://www.happinessfunction.com/users/dhorlick/blog/?p=185#comment-268 Maybe I'm being naive, and actual Everglades visitors dump half-eaten buckets of fried chicken into the mangrove swamp from the open window of their campers, just before releasing an unwanted python. Most of the people I've seen on our visits seemed to behave. If everybody parks in the parking lot, stays on the paths, and puts their trash in the trash can, I don't think tourism has to be a problem. Maybe I’m being naive, and actual Everglades visitors dump half-eaten buckets of fried chicken into the mangrove swamp from the open window of their campers, just before releasing an unwanted python.

Most of the people I’ve seen on our visits seemed to behave. If everybody parks in the parking lot, stays on the paths, and puts their trash in the trash can, I don’t think tourism has to be a problem.

]]> by: Baltimore Brown http://www.happinessfunction.com/users/dhorlick/blog/?p=185#comment-267 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:44:32 +0000 http://www.happinessfunction.com/users/dhorlick/blog/?p=185#comment-267 Ok, now who thought this would happen? So I was thinking about your post and realized that I had to debate a certain point. Although you may be right, that the per person pollution created in an urban environment is lower than that in rural areas, I think a big problem is that because of the concentration of pollutants, there is no simple way to deal with the fallout. A farmer who grazes his cows in a pasture enriches the environment by adding the manure to the soil. The concentration of cattle in a feedlot creates a toxic mix of nitrates and bacteria that become a serious pollutant. A delicate eco-system like the Everglades couldn't over come even slight crowding, but in general, nature has many systems already in place to deal effectively with waste and pollutants in moderate amounts. Ok, now who thought this would happen? So I was thinking about your post and realized that I had to debate a certain point.

Although you may be right, that the per person pollution created in an urban environment is lower than that in rural areas, I think a big problem is that because of the concentration of pollutants, there is no simple way to deal with the fallout.

A farmer who grazes his cows in a pasture enriches the environment by adding the manure to the soil. The concentration of cattle in a feedlot creates a toxic mix of nitrates and bacteria that become a serious pollutant.

A delicate eco-system like the Everglades couldn’t over come even slight crowding, but in general, nature has many systems already in place to deal effectively with waste and pollutants in moderate amounts.

]]> by: Dave Horlick http://www.happinessfunction.com/users/dhorlick/blog/?p=185#comment-266 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:45:54 +0000 http://www.happinessfunction.com/users/dhorlick/blog/?p=185#comment-266 He says it's a two bedroom. It looks fairly modest in his TV show on Discovery's Planet Green channel. He says it’s a two bedroom. It looks fairly modest in his TV show on Discovery’s Planet Green channel.

]]> by: Baltimore Brown http://www.happinessfunction.com/users/dhorlick/blog/?p=185#comment-264 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:55:38 +0000 http://www.happinessfunction.com/users/dhorlick/blog/?p=185#comment-264 Ed Begley Jr. ?? What could he possible have to tell us? Let me guess, he drives an electric car, brings his own bags to the grocery store and put solar panels on his 4,000 square foot house. Ed Begley Jr. ?? What could he possible have to tell us? Let me guess, he drives an electric car, brings his own bags to the grocery store and put solar panels on his 4,000 square foot house.

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